Quotessence
Home / Books / Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis

Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis

Book by Rob Armstrong · 4 quotes · Dreams, Afterlife, Anabasis

Filter quotes by topic

AllDreamsAfterlifeAnabasisChapel PerilousCreativityDepthsGloryGodGreek MythologyHeightsHeroHero S JourneyHomerIdentity DisorderKatabasisMaslowMultiple Personality DisorderPhilosophyPsychologyReligion

Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis Quotes

“For Homer, glory was the only thing that was truly imperishable. Only the glorious live on after death, in the memories and stories of humanity. Glory is the only meaningful form of immortality. The abject creature that lives on in the underworld holds no appeal. In fact, Homer’s theology demands a dismal afterlife. That way, the heroes are fully motivated to achieve glory here and now. What else is there to aim for? The grim persistence of the soul after death is in every way unappealing. Do you want a mediocre life and an even more mediocre death?”

HeroGloryAfterlifeGreek MythologyHomer
Book:Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
Create image

“Maslow emphasized the “heights”, but to get to the heights you must have the Dark Night of the soul, and make your trip to the Chapel Perilous. Katabasis means a going-down, a descent. It’s used to describe journeys to the underworld. Anabasis is its opposite, a going-up. You can only reach the spiritual heights if you have also known the spiritual depths.”

DepthsHeightsHero S JourneyMaslowKatabasisAnabasisChapel Perilous
Book:Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
Create image

“How do you become God? You train yourself. Anyone can become God. Because the unconscious is God. Every time you dream, you are God. Nothing is more creative than a dream, and everyone dreams. In your dreams, you create whole worlds, and entire casts of characters, out of nothing. You do it … effortlessly. It’s your consciousness that struggles. Do you understand the game? You are God … but God has no idea who God is, or what God is. So, the part of you that is God does not know it is God. The part of you that knows that part of you is God isn’t God. The part that knows, the part that isn’t God, is consciousness. The part that doesn’t know, the part that is God, is the unconscious. The cosmic comedy, or is it tragedy, is that God doesn’t know he is God. He’s not suffering from amnesia. He never knew. That’s why consciousness exists. It’s the means for God to become aware he is God. God is creativity, but he doesn’t know what to create. That’s the cosmic irony. He can create anything, yet has to be told what to create.”

PhilosophyGodReligionCreativityPsychologyDreams
Book:Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
Create image

“Our psyche is astonishingly fissile. The proof is our dreams where one psyche produces a whole cast of characters interacting with each other and trying to dominate each other. All dreams are examples of multiple personality disorder, with the dream characters serving as “alters” of the unconscious mind. When a person, during waking hours, cannot control their unconscious, their dream minds take over as a cast of alters and they are then diagnosed with dissociate identity disorder.”

DreamsUnconsciousMultiple Personality DisorderIdentity Disorder
Book:Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
Create image